Find the liaison teacher(s) at your school.

It can be more than one and often is better if this is so. They are going to be the lynch-pin and the key to the team’s success and the individual student’s preparation, separation and reintegration for the program. The role description for the liaison teacher can be found in the Guide to the Liaison Teacher on our website: (http://www.alpineschool.vic.edu.au/applications/home-school-liaison.html ). There should be a time allocation to this role if the school is to have a successful overall experience in this program

Complete an Expression of Interest Form and Send it to the Alpine School Campus by the end of Term 2. This will apply for all 2019 programs at all campuses.

The Liaison Teacher, Principal and School Council President need to sign the Expression of Interest form. This should be completed by the council meeting in May/June.

Schools can express interest in as many programs as they wish within the allocation for their region using the one form for the three campuses, and they should!

Country and metro regions will continue to be mixed at each campus each term.

Gender representation is still a key factor in a schools success. (Boys still need to be actively sought out to participate).

In Term 2 2018, all the expressions of interest for all the terms at all the campuses for 2019 will be accepted at Alpine Admins centre.

All the school places, team numbers and gender allocations will be offered in Term 3 for 2019.
Schools will be able to plan for their 2019 by Term 3 2018 knowing if they have a place, how many students in each team, and what gender mix to recruit for and at what campus.

The CLP is still a key feature of the program.

The CLP will only need to be developed IF a school has been successful in being offered a place.

Schools should use the development of the CLP and selection of their teams, to meet the mix offered, as a simultaneous exercise.

The new form uses a weighting for the selection of subsequent teams based upon the success of previous teams.

References will need to be sought from previous stakeholders-parents, students, teachers as to the needs of returning students and support structures in the home school.

School For Student Leadership

School for Student Leadership is a Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET) initiative offering a unique residential education experience for year nine students. The curriculum focuses on personal development and team learning projects sourced from students' home regions. There are three campuses in iconic locations across Victoria. TheAlpine School Campus is located at Dinner Plain in the Victorian Alps. Snowy River Campus is near the mouth of the Snowy River at Marlo in east Gippsland. The third site is adjacent to Mount Noorat near Camperdown in Victoria’s Western District, and is called Gnurad-Gundidj. After consultation with the local aboriginal community, this name represents both the indigenous name of the local area and an interpretation of the statement "belonging to this place".
--Our school community acknowledges the Gunaikurnai, Bidawel and Gundijmara people as the traditional custodians of the land upon which our school campuses are built. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their Elders past and present, and especially whose children attend our school.